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Delicate designs with an illustrative edge - highly detailed surface pattern and illustration, inspired by life and created with love.
Sarah Fleming is a graduate of Cleveland College of Art & Design, where she studied Textiles and Surface Design, specialising in design for the home furnishings and greetings market.
Inspired by the detail and beautiful patterns found in nature and her surroundings, Sarah is motivated to achieve beautiful, highly informative observational drawings.
She showed an interest in Art from a very early age and has developed a great passion for Textiles and Surface Design. This huge passion spurs her on to work extremely hard, full of enthusiasm to create new and exciting design ideas.
Sarah has developed a detailed, tight drawing style which helps her to achieve her beautiful observational drawings. However, she is also able to work in a very sketchy, illustrative style too - showing her as a very versatile designer, capable of adapting where relevant to confidently produce designs for both the commercial and more niche markets.
For work enquiries please contact Sarah at sarahfleming11@hotmail.com

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Design Development - initial ideas

I have been playing around with some design ideas using Photoshop for the past few days and feel I have created some really interesting initial designs.

I wanted to create designs that have quite a dreamy, mysterious feel taken from my visit to The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall - the grounds of a large country house, which was known as the “Sleeping Beauty” after being neglected for hundreds of years, overgrown with weeds but has now been revived, full of beautiful florals.

I love the colour scheme; I think it is dark and sophisticated with hints of brightness which attract the eye.

I am excited to continue working with design development and pushing these ideas even further to create a range of unique, creative furnishing fabrics.